Artists who have performed at the Good Coffeehouse Music Parlor include Bob Brozman, Crooked Jades, John Cohen, Reverend Gary Davis, Mike Dowling, Ari Eisinger, Mary Flower, Paul Geremia, Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen, Alice Gerrard, David Grier, Corey Harris, John Hasbrouck, Ernie Hawkins, Ginny Hawker & Tracy Schwarz, Walter Hensley, Nick Katzman, Walt Koken, Alan Jabbour, Steve James, David Laibman, Brad Leftwich, Dale Miller, Clare Milliner, Bruce Molsky, The Orpheus Supertones, Tom Paley, Ken Perlman, James Reams & The Barnstormers, Del Rey, Tom Sauber, Bill Staines, Rafe Stefanini, The Sullivan Family, Pat Wictor, among many others.
Music starts at 8:00 PM Doors open at: 7:30 PM
NOTE: NO VIDEO OR AUDIO RECORDING WITHOUT PERMISSION OF ARTIST AND VENUE
Sept 24 Hell's Kitchen Country (adults $10, kids $6) The Good Coffeehouse welcomes Hell's Kitchen Country, a band all about savory three-part bluegrass harmony. Comprised of three bluegrass and old time country veterans Gene Yellin (guitar), Bill Christophersen (fiddle) and Mark Farrell (mandolin), the band derives its repertoire from the lesser known material of bluegrass pioneers such as the Sauceman Brothers as well as the Stanley Brothers and Jimmy Martin. HKC will be joined this evening by veterans Ethan Kende (bass) and Doug Nicholaisen (5-string banjo). Believe us when we tell you ...... this is a musical event you will not want to miss!!!
Oct 1 Singer/Blues guitarist Paul Geremia – Traveling Troubadours Concert Series (adults $15, kids $6) Paul Geremia (paulgeremia.org) hails from Rhode Island, but for the past 40 years he has been on the road full-time, thrilling audiences with his virtuoso acoustic blues guitar playing and passionate singing. He is equally impressive on six- and twelve-string guitar and is one of the world’s great rack harmonica players. Come see why he’s been called a “national treasure.”
Oct 8 Guitar masters Stefan Grossman and Tokio Uchida – Traveling Troubadours Concert Series (adults $15, kids $6) Tokio Uchida (tab-guitar-school.co.jp/E/E-index.html) is Japan's best-known acoustic blues guitarist. He has released five solo blues and fingerstyle CDs, and in 2007 he and Stefan Grossman released their first duet CD, Bermuda Triangle Exit. Bob Brozman says of Uchida: "His playing is soulful and, most importantly, very original and adventurous."
Stefan Grossman (guitarvideos.com) has had perhaps a greater influence than anyone over the past four decades in popularizing country blues guitar playing. A onetime student of legendary bluesmen such as Reverend Gary Davis, Mississippi John Hurt, Skip James and Son House, Grossman has been a performer, producer, teacher and record label founder. He is a master of most blues and ragtime guitar styles and runs Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop, which has educated thousands of budding guitar players over the years through video and DVD lessons.
Oct 15 Pat Hall, Elijah Tucker, & Camp, Noriega and Dunn (adults $10, kids $6) Third Friday, presented by the Park Slope Food Coop Pat Hull is a songwriter from Connecticut . He recently moved to New York where he writes and performs. He will release his 4th album this July.
Elijah Tucker "With passion born of tribulation, Elijah Tucker reaches into uncharted corners of his heart and comes out grinning. With the sweet rawness of early Springsteen and Van Morrison, the twists of Todd Rundgren and David Byrne, and the soul-striving of Stevie Wonder and Joni Mitchell, he makes sounds to swim in." Camp, Noriega, and Dunn is comprised of Joshua Camp, Oscar Noriega, and Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle, John Zorn). They play an eclectic, original mix of classic country and European folk.
Oct 22 Fiddler Lisa Gutkin – (adults $10, kids $6) One of NYC's most versatile musicians, Lisa Gutkin (lisagutkin.com) is best known as fiddler and singer for the Grammy winning Klezmatics, as well as the downtown-celtic group Whirligig. She’s been called "one hot fiddler" by Cyndi Lauper, and Pete Seeger described her song “Gonna Get Through This World," for which she composed music to the lyrics of Woody Guthrie, as “a piece of genius." Lisa can be found on over 100 albums and film scores, leads fiddle styles workshops, master classes and artist residencies, and has written music for (and appeared on) Sex & The City. In her role as a songwriter, Lisa was commissioned to write music for Mabou Mines' "Song for New York" and awarded a fellowship at the MacDowell Artist Colony. Backing songs on tenor guitar and piano, and culture hopping through fiddle traditions, Lisa’s solo performances are as versatile as her career.
Oct 29
Nov 5 Pat Wictor– Roots Music (adults $15 / kids $6) Pat Wictor's music draws on the country, gospel and blues heritage of our nation. He settled on fingerstyle and slide guitar after taking a convoluted path, living abroad and working his way through rock and jazz on a variety of instruments. "....a depth and clarity rarely heard these days" --Sing Out!
Nov 12 Fab Furries (Allan Podber and Ralph Litwin), Big Road (adults $10 / kids $6) ( Allan Podber, Myriam Valle and Ricky Eisenberg) and other surprises
Nov 19 PSFC Swing Band (adults $10 / kids $6) Third Friday, presented by the Park Slope Food Coop Barry Brysen brings his hit swing band back to the coffeehouse for an evening of great music and dancing.
Nov 26 – closed
Dec 3
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Dec 17 Dave Roche & Louis Rosen (adults $10 / kids $6)
Third Friday, presented by the Park Slope Food Coop David Roche is a singer/songwriter from a family of famous singer/songwriters. (The Roches are his sisters). He has been writing songs from an early age and performed with his wife, daughter, sisters, in-laws and more.
Louis Rosen is a multi-award winning songwriter, guitarist and pianist best known for his recent recordings and performances with the jazz/pop vocalist and Broadway musical actress, Capathia Jenkins. Louis goes solo this time, though Capathia and a few friends have promised to sit in.
Dec 24 – closed
Dec 31 – closed
Please check our website regularly for updated listings: www.gchmusic.org
DIRECTIONS VIA PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:Directions: Q train to 7th Av station in Brooklyn; F train to 7th Av; 2 or 3 train to Grand Army Plaza; B69 bus to 2nd St; B75 bus to Prospect Park West; B41 or B71 bus to Grand Army Plaza; B67 bus to 2nd St.
